.... Victor and the monster, Shelley teaches of the destructive consequences of insensible actions and habits. However, she also portrays good habits that aid in overcoming the obstacles of life. Mary Shelley sets vital examples for being content without being overly ambitious, taking responsibility for actions, having loving relationships with people, and enjoying life and nature through Victor Frankenstein and his monster’s actions. Mary Shelley begins by telling of the dangers in being overly- ambitious through Victor's obsession with creating life. As Victor toils on a physically and mentally laborious project, he completely neglects the other s .....

.... anything to please and help Conrad, and that sometimes becomes irritating to Conrad as well as Beth. Beth is almost completely the opposite. Beth is a housewife that lunches with the other women of town and she is very cautious about her appearance to the community. Beth cares more about herself and her social standing then she does about her family. For example, when Calvin and her were getting dressed, she made him change his tie. That stuck in Calvin’s mind as why did it matter what he wore to his son’s funeral. Beth was very loving to Buck, though. She didn’t want anyone to know that there was anything wrong and she would avoid pro .....

.... Santiago is viewed as an outcast in his village because he has not caught any fish for more than eighty-four days and is therefore "unlucky". Nonetheless Manolin is loyal to Santiago and even when his parents forbid him he wants to help his friend. Their conversations are comfortable, like that of two friends who have known each other for their whole lives. When they speak it is usually about baseball or fishing, the two things they have most in common. Their favorite team is the Yankees and Santiago never loses faith in them even when the star player, Joe DiMaggio is injured with a heel spur. In this way Santiago not only teaches Manolin about fishi .....

.... an enjoyable job. Individuals are not allowed personal goals, rather the good of the entire society is the collective goal. People in this society do not work towards their own happiness. They work only for what is taught to be the common happiness. True pleasures of life are not allowed. Since they do not see personal benefits and fulfillment from their work, they lack enthusiasm and personal initiative. It is as though everybody has been brainwashed to one collective way. The people consider themselves as one body. Though collectivisim may have certain benefits, in Anthem it is taken to a dangerous extreme. Their collective society has nearl .....

.... were extremely poor and when her father left her mother Anne and her family was much worse off. Her mother moved around a little and had very little money. Anne's childhood consisted of meals of beans and bread and poor clothes. As a child she is not immediately too aware of the difference in skin color between the whites and the blacks. She and her sister were friends with two white children across the street and this led to one of her first experiences in realizing her black skin made her appear inferior to the whites. Anne and her sister accidentally followed their white friends into the white section of th4e movie theatre, not realizing th .....

.... for the end of evil. By the end of the novel, all the boys, except for Ralph have regressed into a primitive state and have lost all morals, until their rescue, wh en they finally see how bad they have been. The plot of this novel is based on fear, fear that leads to evil. In ‘Beast from the Water,' fear spreads through the group. Ralph, the current leader of the group, tries to convince the boys that their fear of a beast is absurd. Ralph is unsuccessful in deterring the fear of the boys. Several of them tell of monsters they have heard of, like the giant squid, and ponder the fact that beasts and ghosts may be roaming the island. Ralph observ .....

.... When the prince realizes palace life is a lot better than begging in the streets, he has to find a way to get back to the palace and reclaim his rightful throne. Along the way he suffers many predicaments including starvation, abuse, and jail. Mark Twain’s style in writing was very unique. Since the novel takes place in the sixteenth century the dialogue and narration is written in the language style of that time. “Oh, prithee, no more, my lord, I cannot bear it! I beseech your good lordship that order be taken to change this law...� is an example of the style within the novel. Not only the does the dialogue and narration make this no .....

.... uses to expose the hypocrisy, racism, greed and injustice of society develops along with the adventures that Huck and Jim have. The ugly reflection of society we see should make us question the world we live in, and only the journey down the river provides us with that chance. Throughout the book we see the hypocrisy of society. The first character we come across with that trait is Miss Watson. Miss Watson constantly corrects Huck for his unacceptable behavior, but Huck doesn’t understand why, "That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it" (2). Later when Miss Watson tries to teach Huck .....

.... time. While the book is supposed to show a change in Satomi’s thoughts and mannerisms, I feel it did just the opposite, closing her off from the new ideas that were being thrown at her. The more she is bombarded with new situations and people, the more closed off and confused she becomes. For example, when her sister, Rie, comes to visit from Japan, Satomi sees how maladjusted she is. While sitting at the dinner table at a chic Soho restaurant, Satomi recounts in her mind, “The age I live in, at this place, I was ill at ease. I felt I didn’t belong here at all. I could never act like I was accustomed to this type of demure place like some .....

.... of the strong woman who raised her as a child. Her brother, although now a famous musician who has abandoned his Japanese self, grudgingly agrees to return as well. While she waits, Naomi discovers a package left by another aunt, a political activist and teacher, full of papers, news clippings, photographs, documents, letters... and memories. is a thoroughly gut-wrenching story of a Japanese family's efforts to survive the trauma of separation from home and each other. Forced to live in squalid conditions, sharing quarters with complete strangers, without enough food or supplies to adequately live, what happens to the Japanese is very similar to w .....